November 19, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the idea that George Pickens should take less for "legacy" with the Cowboys, Raiders coach Pete Carroll continuing to endorse QB Geno Smith, the latest update on Titans rookie QB Cam Ward, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one, our number one.
We start out in Dallas. How about them Cowboys? A
lot of chatter about George Pickens, not slim pickings for
George Pickens. Should the wide receiver named George Pickens take
less money for legacy? Should he take less for his
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legacy with the Cowboys? Des Bryant says yes. Also, how
do you process Raiders coach Pete Carroll's endorsement of Geno Smith?
And what does this latest update on Titans rookie quarterback
cam Ward indicate to you. We'll talk about all that
and more right now in our number one. Here it is. Well,
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it turns out these are not slim Pickens. They are
not slim Pickens. Welcome in not beginning of another number
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our lead this hour is from Dallas. The post mortem
on a wind against a tomato can. The Raiders and
Cops also a tomato can. They're just a little tougher
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tomato can than the Raiders. So fresh off the cakewalk
win in Vegas, so good. A couple of the star
players didn't show up to meetings because they were out
at the Belagio or doing whatever they were doing. And
so the Cowboys doing the pirouett on the catwalk and
shaking it all about having a great time. Now, George
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Pickens the talk of the town. One of the guys
that was on the Natty list is he and Cedee
Lamb tweetled the and tweedled dumb not out there in
the first series for the Dallas Cowboys, and it didn't matter.
But they are the talk of the town. It was
really George Pickens is the talk of the town. He
had a huge game. If you had him on Fantasy,
you're very happy about that. If you watch the game,
he played very well. Now. Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer, when
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asked about George Pickens at the news conference on Tuesday,
said possibility of Pickens staying in Dallas. He said, sign
me up. Now there's a shocking tap. Did anyone think
that Brian Schottennheimer Shotzi would say, you know, hey, I'll
I don't want the guy, but shot he said no,
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I said, I love the firepower, he said, he and
CD give us. I pinch myself at times. I want
to see a doctor. I'm very in favor of George
having a long term future with us in Dallas. Close quote.
So Jerry Jones also chimed in. He's talked about George
Pickens multiple times over the last month or so and
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is interested in a long term relationship between the player
and the team, although there have been no conversations at
this point, leading many to believe that George Pickens would
like to test the market. Well, George Pickens has an
expiring contract. We know that former Dallas star Des Bryant,
who knows the thing or two about playing for Jerry
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Jones as a wide receiver. So does Bryant went on
social media and he gave some advice recently to George Pickens.
He said to Pickens that his legacy will be worth
more than being the highest paid receiver. He said, if
you stay with the Cowboys, there's a lot more to
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the thought process indicating that, yeah, the money is great,
but you you know, cowboys, Come on, you can do
autograph shows in Plano, Texas when you're seventy years old.
Come on now, all right, So that is a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question should George
Pickens take less for quote legacy reasons with the Cowboys?
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That is the question. Now my thoughts on this, I
have TSA Texas Instruments and emergency app update and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a double cheeseburger with extra onions and
garlic is what we're going to make. So a listen,
we love the thing act that des Bryant who has
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apparently lots of free time, he's got nothing going on.
But I don't know, he must be bored out of his mind.
Made a good amount of money. I don't know if
he kept his money, just be bored out of his mind.
So des Bryant is out there giving career advice like
he's the Dalai Lama of wide receivers. Is like it's
just so great, uh, just just outstanding, just absolutely, I
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say the Dalai Lama of wide receivers. You think about
your legacy, George, You think about your like are you
are we kidding? Like? What do we what do we do?
Can we talk? Yeah? All right? So this is the NFL.
This is not some lifestyle drama. George Pickens is not
taking a dime less. Not a dime less. Then the
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market will provide him. And you know why, let me
tell you why. This isn't about legacy. Okay, because his reputation,
his legacy from his time in Pittsburgh. He already comes
with a loaded suitcase and TSA has already flagged George
Pickens when he was in Pittsburgh. He's on the do
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not fly list, so he's got to get screened when
he goes to the airport extra because of what he
did with Mike Tomlin and the Steers. So it's fair
to say, based on what we know, based on what
we know, he's not George Pickens walking into Jerry Jones
office and saying, Okay, I'll take less. He's also not
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going in there and getting a ceedee lamb contract. No shot,
no shot, that's not gonna happen. So he's gonna have
to take less than see the lamb and Jerry already
shot his shot. That's the issue here. Dallas picked their
alpha wide receiver. C. D. Lamb is the man in
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a lamb, That's who they picked. He's the guy. George
George George George George George Pickens. He have to be
the number two. And there have been some wonderful number
two receivers in my lifetime. I think even the Dallas
Cowboys when they used to win. I'm old, so I
remember when the cow was actually had good teams they won.
I'm old I remember that. And their top receiver was
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a guy named Michael Irvin, the playmaker. The number two
receiver was a guy named Alvin Harper, not a bad player,
Alvin Harper. You don't hear Alvin Harper's name very much
these days, or really ever after he stopped playing. You
always like the number two guy is forgotten. I'll give
you some more evidence of that. Jerry Rice in a
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different era in the eighties with the forty nine ers,
the all time greatest receiver of all time, the number
two receiver a guy named John Taylor. Very good player,
very good player. When's the last time you hear John
Taylor's name? Right? The Pittsburgh Steelers had heinz Ward and
the number two receiver was Santonio Holmes. Not a bad player,
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but that's the B side. People remember the A side,
they don't remember the B side. All those guys great
second bananas is wide receivers. They were great, but they
weren't at the very top and they didn't get paid
the top dollar. That's just the way it was. And
so the idea of legacy, Oh, it's all about the legacy.
Oh my god, please whfe you took us with your
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legacy there. And occasionally it may mean something if you've
only played for one team and you buy into that dogma.
That is not the case here with George Beckins. He
is a now football mercenary. He worked himself out of
Pittsburgh for being on the on the bad list and
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all the baggage and all that stuff, and Jerry got
him for pennies on the dollar because the Steelers are like,
we gotta get rid of this guy. He's a cancer.
So they got rid of him. And we know Jerry
loves baggage. We know that Jerry Jones loves baggage and
he collects it like frequent flyer miles and so don't
confuse that with paying a premium. We don't think that's
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going to going to happen. So we know Jerry Jones
is going to sell George Pickens when the time comes
here on being a Dallas cowboy, and he's going to
talk about all the marketing opportunities you have when you're
play in Dallas and the star on the helmet and
they leave the light there in the stadium so God
can look down because apparently God doesn't have X ray vision.
All that stuff, the bright lights, it just means more
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when you play for the Cowboys, right, all that stuff.
Sunday Night Full is just bigger when the Cowboys are
in it. But everyone's got a price tag. Everyone's got
a price tag. And des Bryant can preach about legacy
and all this nonsense and this rigamarole and all that stuff,
but legacy does not pay, does not pay for the
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extra private island in the Bahamas that you would like
to have, right And he guaranteed money typically does it
typically does right. So should Pickens take less for the legacy?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, if he wants to be a foot soldier for
Jerry Jones and a made man a made man in
the football mob, in the Death Star in Jerry's world.
That is he actually going to do it now, He's
not going to actually do it. Once those negotiations start,
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the legacy goes out the window, right right out the window.
And then they pull out the old calculator on the
phone and they start crunching the numbers and they go
over the numbers and all that, and the legacy sounds nice.
And then it's the NFL. You know, legacy is good.
Direct deposits better. I kind of like the direct deposit.
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And you want to be the number one guy. You
can't beat the number one guy in Dallas unless the
Cowboys would trade CD lamb. That seems unlikely they're going
to trade CD lamb. So what you're gonna do? What
you're gonna do, that's the question, all right now, turno
pitch to page two. We go to Viva Las Vegas.
Viva Las Vegas. Were Raider coach Pete Carroll, Good old
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Pete Carroll continues to sing the virtues of Geno Smith. Yes,
that suckbag quarterback Gino Smith, who proves on a weekly
basis he cannot play as a starting quarterback in the NFL.
Listen to Pete Carroll here, you'd think, if you listen
to this, you'd think that Geno Smith is God's gift
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to the quarterback position.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Tag Liz, you know, I continue to really believe in him.
I have no hesitation in telling you that he's an
incredible player and he's busting his tail and he's working
at it really hard. He has not backed off one
step throughout the process, and so we're counting on that
he's going to keep working and he'll come through for us.
We just got to help him out more, got to
protect him better.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
All right, So how do you process the Raiders coach?
You just heard the sound bright there. Pete Carroll in
his endorsement of Geno Smith, Well, it proves that there
is no correlation between hard work and performance. Because if
he's working hard and these are the results he's getting,
holy crap, you might want to not work hard because
you're wasting your time. You suck, dude, You're terrible, right,
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Good old positive Pete, good old positive Pete. There he is.
Raiders are two and eight. They're like a turd circling
the ball. This is what they're doing right there, and
is like a little rubber ducky surrounded by turds. That's
the raiders right there in the bathtub. And this is
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not so much coaching. It's the art of manifestation. That's
what Pete Carroll's doing on this one. That's what I'm
going with. It's the art of manifestation, and he's trying
to speak this into existence. Good luck. Pete's not visualizing
a playoff run because that's that's over. He's visualizing therapist bills,
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is what he's doing. The shrink bills is that's where
he's going. So essentially treating Geno Smith like a frag
porcelain teacup, which is which is guy? We all know
Geno's soft. We learned that when he was at West Virginia.
He got into it with me on social media back
in the day, so we know that. But it's just crazy.
Pete Carroll will not publicly criticize Gino Smith. I challenge
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any man, woman, or child to find audio of Pete
Carroll ripping Gino Smith. It has not happened and it
will not happen. Now why is that? Because Pete Carroll
understands that you cannot speak the truth to Gino Smith?
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Cannot do it. He's not wired that way. He's soft,
and you can't do it with a soft athlete. You
cannot not you can't. You know. Pete's much rather rather
than just be honest here, he's like taking the peanut
butter and jelly samwich and he's cutting off the crust
to make an uncrustable homemade and he's getting the blank
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ye ready every week for Gino Smith, it's wild. Meanwhile,
Gino's out there playing like he's a Texas Instruments calculator
from nineteen ninety four, just real slow, real real slow,
doing his thing, and my god, takes forever, takes forever
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to get through reads. And there's a theme a lot
of these bad quarterbacks. There is one common denominator, and
they don't get rid of the ball quickly. They don't.
And you watch the Raiders with Gino Smith and it's
always the same am like, well the offense will launch
no good, oh my god. Because people are stupid. They
don't understand that it's the quarterback most of the time
that f's it up, not the offensive line. It's the quarterback.
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And people don't understand. They don't understand ball. They understand
how that works, and so he holds the ball too long.
He's waiting for deep roots or routes, and that's how
you end up with almost thirty sacks in one hundred
and eighty five yards. Law us, he's the second worst
in the NFL. Gino Smith and Yard lost via sack.
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Congratulation that the brain takes the scenic route when he's
playing quarterback. There he leads the NFL tied for the
lead in interceptions. Congratulations, he's the thirty first ranked quarterback
in the NFL. But he's working really hard. He's working
really hard. And there's Pete Carroll. He's got now, he's
got he bought this on Tiamu. He's got silver and
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black knee pads. When he talks about Geno Smith's wild
he's wearing him right there, praising his effort and busting
his tail and all that. Do I need to be
the voice of reason here and point out that the
Raiders gave that man seventy five million dollars of new
money before he had ever played a game. I ever
played a game with the Raiders when they got him
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from Seattle. And you could have bought the entire XFL
and one of those guys would have been better than
Gino Smith one of them. And so Pete really believes
in Geno Smith, which he doesn't. But if he really
believes in Geno Smith, he had to drive Geno to
the Harry Reid Airport, the newly renamed Harry Reid Airport
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in Vegas and personally buy him a one way ticket
out of Vegas middle seat, just like Rob Parker likes
on Spirit airlines. No carry on, that's it, get out
of here. You're done, all right now, last word to Nashville,
Tennessee we go where Danny and Nashville is the only
person left watching the monstrosity that is the Tennessee football team.
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So Titans offensive coordinator Nick Holtz chimed in on this,
Holts saying that he was talking about the quarterback cam
Ward and he told reporters, he told the staff here
that they're working to reinvent cam Ward to raise his
arm slot. Yeah. I know, just listen, they say, because
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the way cam throws the football, he's got a lower release,
and that has led to a ton of passes being
batted down at the line of scrimmage. It happens at
least a couple of times, seemingly every game where cam
Ward has passes that should be completed that don't even
have a chance because they're getting batted down by the
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defensive players who know, when cam Ward throws the ball,
jump up, good chance you're going to get a hold
of it. Good chances you're gonna get hold of it. Now,
the question on this one, what does the latest update
on Titan's rookie quarterback cam Ward indicate to you? So
this is not that difficult. Cam Ward we knew going
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in was never a plug and play guy. He was
never that, and watching him play in college at Miami,
you never got the vibe, well, this is a all
time great player. This is going to be an amazing
clearly the number one player in the draft and all
that stuff. This was not a microwave dinner. This was
a raw piece of chicken and you needed to season it.
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It was unseasoned and you had to put in the
oven for forty minutes and hope for the best, hope
for the best. The Titans drafted this guy number one overall,
number one, and here we are, it's not even the
middle of the season. We're getting kind of near the
end of the season. Thanksgivings right around the corner, and
they're trying to patch the glitches in real time, in
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real time in season. That's the plan in Tennessee. Like
they're pushing out an emergency app update in the app store,
bug fixes and performance improvements and all that. Now the
release time, that is another issue. We talked about this
with Gino Smith, same problem with cam Ward. Cam Ward
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two point eight seconds seems like that's pretty quick, but
in the NFL world, that is slow motion. That is
dial up Internet in the NFL world. And that's a
quarter back, just like Gino, waiting to take the deep shot,
not making quick decisions, and as a result, you end
up eating your lunch is what you end up doing
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as you get sacked and all that stuff. And now
now his arm slot is all messed up. That's the
probably's armslot. That's the issue. Great double whammy, that's the
double whammy, is what that is. And so not only
is he late on his throes and his decisions, cam Ward,
he's also got a wonky delivery. That sounds great. Where
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did draft a guy the fifth round?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Number one? Overall? That's what he says. So great, you
got the guy with the double whamy. Now I do
like cam Ward. Don't treat this as some kind of
attack on cam mord. He's the only quarterback in my
life who is given the most honest answer regarding his
team when he said, we asked, and he's right. He
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also could have said me ass is what he could
have said. He could have said that as well. And
so if you want batted balls, if you want turnovers,
if you want all that stalled drives, watch the Tennessee
Titans with cam Ward. And that's the stuff to get
coaches fired. Oh by the way, cam Moore has already
got his coach fired, so they're on the interim coach
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there and from franchise savior, which is what you expect
when you have the top pick in the draft. And
now we're talking about doing demo on cam Ward, doing
some demo, going back to studs, recreating things, because that
always works, that never goes wrong. Sure, reinvent the quarterback. Yeah,
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we was it. We eleven, week twelve, something like that.
Just redo it. Just that's it. You know, cam Ward
not broken, He's just unfinished. He's just unfinished. It is
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Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Absolutely. Now Rebecca's upset. She's in LA, but she's upset.
She says that, hey, at least those Texas instruments calculators
were efficient. No, yeah, I used them back in the day.
Absolutely No, that was top technology. Absolutely, DJ something something
(25:14):
writes is telling people the offensive line isn't a problem,
and they don't know ball when the offensive line is right.
Second to last in the NFL is a choice. I'm
not saying Gino's great, but he put a body in there,
he said, But to just disregard that as well to me, well, DJ,
(25:36):
I promise you, if the Raiders had a halfway decent quarterback,
the offensive line would not be second to last in
the NFL. And if you don't believe me, look at
the Houston Texas. All the dumb idiots in Houston. Oh
my god, CJ. Stroud's gonna get killed. They don't have
an offensive line. Oh my god, Davis Mills plays same
suck bag offensive line, same crappy lineman, and all of
(25:58):
a sudden, the Texas offense is hmm, I wonder what
the problem was?
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, See what else do you? Ryan says off the
topics on the table. Who plays more NBA games this season?
Anthony Davis or Kawhi Leonard? Why don't you watch Ryan
and let me know? Why don't you watch and let
me know? Ryan and San Diego. Yeah, just let me
let me know what's going on with that. Late night
drug tester says, maybe George Pickens will be convinced staying
(26:29):
with the Cowboys will get him a football made of
diamonds like Jason Witten got. Yeah, not to be sold
at some auction someday. A football of diamonds. Oh, how
exciting that is. A football of diamonds. Let's go to
the phones and a big mystery on the show. Yesterday,
we gave a man his own segment on the show
(26:52):
and he did not show up. He that's a no call,
no show. That's a no call, no show, fireable offense,
one hundred percent lore. And so we reached out. We
tried to get a hold of him. I called. His
phone was not working. His Obama phone did not work.
I thought he was arrested. Let's get to the bottom
of that. Right now, we will solve the riddle. We
bring in now our boots on the ground in Miami.
(27:15):
The investigation has been solved. We say hello, that's the
voice of weed Man Hippie. Hello, weed Man Hippie. What happened?
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Oh? My phone was? You know what? I paid them
just fifty dollars, like I paid them every single month,
and and for some reason they wanted another five dollars.
I never heard that they never let me know that
my phone was shut off last night.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
All right, all right, well so they raised they must
have raised the price.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
No they man, you.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Got you know what.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
I think the people in the store just made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I don't know, weed man. Every once in a while,
when I was a bachelor, I used to go to
Wendy's and I got the chicken sandwich combo and I
had the exact am I paid cash. Let me explain, no, no, no,
you're laughing at me, but I played. I paid. I
got the chicken sandwich combo. Wendy's. That was my go
to on Mondays. I'd always go to Wendy's. I got
the chicken sandwich combo. Fried chicken sandwich was outstanding with
the fries, and I get it Biggie size or whatever.
(28:15):
So I had this, you know, So I was so cheap.
I counted every penny. I had all my cash ready
to go. And one week I went to get my
chicken sandwich combo. I had the exact amount of money.
They raised the price. They raised the price. I was screwed,
I will When that happened, I was in the drive
through and I was like, oh my god, I don't
want money. I can't get the sandwich. Yeah wow, yeah,
(28:38):
so I'm just saying they maybe they raised the price. No, weed, man,
did you change?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Now?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
The other question is do you have the same number?
Did you have to change your number? Okay, all right,
because we assumed either you were in jail or you
were dead. We we didn't. You know, we didn't think
that you just didn't pay your bill. You know, I
didn't think that.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
I try to pay the bill. Oh boy, I tried.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I know, I know, I know. I know you tried
to pay the bill, just like you tried to get
an email address. Right, you're trying. You're efforting an email email.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
You know what I mean? I see kind of how
to get an email.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
No, you don't know.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
You don't you know, No, I do. I don't believe
they don't my name properly. They gotta be joking. They
already have my name spelled. It's miss spelled.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Okay, then you can change it. Yes you can't. Yes,
you're not. This is not we're not yet a communist country.
Maybe someday, but you you are allowed to change your name.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Yes, well, I don't know how they got what they
already have I don't even know that. You gotta be choking.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Okay, well they they're reading every the old line. If
you're getting something for free, weed, man, you're the product. Okay, yeah,
they're they're taking boy, I'm sure your information is very valuable. Weed.
Many are you talking about your email address? Just create
a new email address. Oh, this is like when everyone
(30:13):
was using horse and buggies. Well you get the car,
well's I don't know what the car is. I don't
know what is a car. I don't know. I was like, well,
like the telephone, what am I supposed to pick this
thing up? Wait a minute, I've been sending letters. I
don't need a telephone. Why do I need a telephone?
You know It's like it's like it's like me when
people started sending text messages, I'm not sending text messages.
I don't believe in that. My dad did the exact
(30:34):
same thing. That was like, why can't you just pick
up the phone exactly someone. Now I get offended when
someone calls me. I'm literally annoyed when someone calls me.
I would much rather text than have someone call me.
But when it started, I was like, I don't want
to text. That's for that's for teenage girls. I'm not
gonna do that. And then now I'm the that is
true though teenage girls do love to text. Well so
(30:55):
do I. So all right, you're okay though, weed Man,
Everything's all right, right, weed Man.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
I wanted to ask we No, we.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Didn't know that. We did we We gave you the
allotted time yesterday. Now I'll put you on hold, and
if somebody wants to ask you a question, we can.
How about that? You want to stay on hold? Okay?
All right, all right, if anybody wants to call weed
man'll be how long are you willing to stay on hold?
Weed Man?
Speaker 7 (31:18):
I want I want to hear what somebody's perfect life is,
if they can have the life they really want to have.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah, all right, that's the deep question of the night
on a sports talk radio show. Yes, all right, all right,
hold on, I'll put you on hold. We man. You're
on hold. Okay, you're online too, so I'll go back
to you if somebody wants to talk. There you go, suck.
He is quality people, he's good people. I love the
(31:47):
guy I do. He's he's a fun guy. So we
have a trade in baseball. The team in Anaheim has
said bye bye to Taylor Ward, who has been a
productive layer at times for the Angels. He has been
traded to the Baltimore Orioles Holy Sports with Coleman Batman.
(32:08):
The Orioles acquiring Taylor Ward, the outfielder from the Angels
in exchange for a right handed pitcher. I've never heard
of named Grayson Rodriguez. I'm sure he'll suck. Heard of
the great Grayson Roes. He's right up there with Chuck Finley,
always right hand, so I guess he's not right there
with Chuck Finley. But what of the great new is
he become the ace of the Angels? Scoop Gray, You're
(32:29):
gonna go out and buy a Grayson Rodriguez jersey, possibly
future Hall of Famer right there. I love the reporting
from the Angel insiders. Angels were looking for top of
the rotation pitching. Okay lay off, drought over. I love
the scouting. I went and looked at the scouting report
on Grayson Rodriguez said, once promising prospect who spent last
(32:51):
season injured. Perfect, He's the perfect Angel. He is perfect
now if he has a I could make a crude
joke there, Coop, but I don't think. I mean, I
was about to say something very cool, but I'm not
going to do that. Coop, I'm not gonna I'm not
going there. I'm not I'm not going to go down
that what you were thinking, Ben, I'm not going to
go down that ward that road. It's actually I don't
(33:13):
know if this guy can pitch or not. He's younger,
which doesn't mean anything. I know Taylor Ward's at the
end of his athletic prime. He turns thirty two next months.
That's usually the end of your athletic prime. So the
Angels they they made a trade. Will this be the
off season of trades? I was texting one of my
Again I'm calling, but I was texting one of my
guys who's a baseball guy, and I don't think it's
a lot of free agent movement, but I believe the
(33:34):
trademark it's going to be pretty good in the hot
stove League. So we'll see about that. But that's what
I've heard of Taylor Ward. That's guy i've heard of.
That's not everyone. I've heard of everyone. So the Angels
does he Is he the number one or is Kakuchi
the number one? Don't number one. All right, let's say
hello to Tom in Rhode Island. Who is next? Hello, Tom, Welcome, good.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
Morning, comrade Miller. Miller yesterday game for yesterday game. We
might be a socialist culture.
Speaker 7 (34:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Coop got screwed, that's all I know.
Speaker 7 (34:08):
Two points of he.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Didn't get screwed. That's bad take. You're opening take is
bad take. You called me by the wrong name, and
then you made an erroneous statement about Coop.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
So I have a problem with this fake Cowboys fan
that's on your show.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Oh is that the one and only right? She's right
over there, She's she's the Wicked what was the nickname
we came up with, the Wicked, the Wicked Queen of
the Fox team.
Speaker 9 (34:35):
It is unbelievable that she calls herself a Cowboys fan,
but she was to the Wicked premiere over watching the
Cowboys who are trying to hold onto their season. She's
the embodiment of everything that sucks about Dallas.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
I'm okay with that.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I'm okay with that because listen, at the end of
the day.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I have to embrace them magic. I have to embrace
the magic and not the suck of the Cowboys and
that's okay. You could argue counter argument, Tom, that Lorena
is the epitome of a cowboy fan. So she is
perfect as a cowboy fan because she doesn't actually watch
the Cowboys. That's the perfect cowboy fri. If they lose,
nor do I lose sleep over it? You know, I'll
still buy the cowboys socks. All right? Who's the coach
(35:18):
of the cowboys?
Speaker 7 (35:19):
Lorain?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Right now? Hold on, hold on, hold on, all right,
she's going she's going to look right now. No, no,
she's running to what is she going to? She's running
over to grab her notes, and she's going through a drawer.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Drawer.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
She's now running back. EDI's rolling over in bed. Right now.
I have a study sheet. Give a study sheet. Study
sheet like Andy Reid's play sheet or the day's menu.
It's like my coach is Brian Schottenheimer, and the that
(35:53):
they'll keep going. I mean, there's any other questions, Tom,
she's got her cheat sheet. You won't ask any questions. Writers.
Speaker 9 (36:00):
Do you want your defensive start?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Huh? Oh wow, you've upset Lorena. Here, Tom, listen, okay,
I listen.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
I will be coming your new nightmare. All right, don't worry.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
But Ben, I do have a trust me. I will
not lose any sleep over you.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Okay, well you're up all night, so none of us
are losing sleep. We're here all night. I mean we
just get paid to stay up on it. What what?
Speaker 7 (36:24):
So?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
How is Calshie able to operate as a sports gambling
book while costplaying as a prediction market. I live going
to state that the state controls all the gambling action,
But somehow Calshi is skirting the rules and I'm able
to play some bets and win.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Well, all right, First of all, if you're winning, why
are you complaining? That's number one, right, I'm just curious.
He just likes to complain, Ben, Well, No, he brings
up a good point. And the issue is this, though,
like how much regulation do you want? Normally, what happens
is if somebody wins too much in sports gambling, they
(37:04):
get shut off, right, That's normally how that works. They
don't want they don't want winners. They don't want you
to win too much. That's normally how that works. But
it's like in California. Sports gambling is illegal in California,
but yet you can there's certain things you can bet on,
like the fantasy stuff you can bet on. It's it's
a really it's like a piecemeal thing. It goes is
its state by state. I know when we do we
(37:27):
do the gambling. The copy they give us and it's
like thirty seconds of copy, and it's thirty seconds of
disclaimers because we're on all over the country, so it's
a million different disclaimers they have to put in there
because every state has their own rules and regulation. So
are you saying time you want national government oversight? Is
that what you want? Because Congress doesn't screw things up
at all. They do people on Capitol he'll always parafect.
Speaker 8 (37:50):
Yeah, no, they're they're perfect. But it's just it's curious
to me the world we live in now what Calshi
was able to do to outsmart these states to be
and polymarkets who's can eventually do it?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah? Yeah, poly market is very popular for sure. Yeah,
all right, I gotta go, But thank you, Tom. You've
had a lot of their very long gat four minutes.
My god, out there, you get out of here. All right?
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Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one, our number one.
We start out in Dallas. How about them Cowboys? A
lot of chatter about George Pickens, not slim pickings for
George Pickens. Should the wide receiver named George Pickens take
less money for legacy? Should he take less for his
(00:23):
legacy with the Cowboys? Des Bryant says yes. Also, how
do you process Raiders coach Pete Carroll's endorsement of Geno Smith?
And what does this latest update on Titans rookie quarterback
cam Ward indicate to you. We'll talk about all that
and more right now in our number one. Here it is. Well,
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our lead this hour is from Dallas. The post mortem
on a wind against a tomato can. The Raiders and
Cops also a tomato can. They're just a little tougher
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tomato can than the Raiders. So fresh off the cakewalk
win in Vegas, so good. A couple of the star
players didn't show up to meetings because they were out
at the Belagio or doing whatever they were doing. And
so the Cowboys doing the pirouett on the catwalk and
shaking it all about having a great time. Now, George
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Pickens the talk of the town. One of the guys
that was on the Natty list is he and Cedee
Lamb tweetled the and tweedled dumb not out there in
the first series for the Dallas Cowboys, and it didn't matter.
But they are the talk of the town. It was
really George Pickens is the talk of the town. He
had a huge game. If you had him on Fantasy,
you're very happy about that. If you watch the game,
he played very well. Now. Cowboys coach Brian Schottenheimer, when
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asked about George Pickens at the news conference on Tuesday,
said possibility of Pickens staying in Dallas. He said, sign
me up. Now there's a shocking tap. Did anyone think
that Brian Schottennheimer Shotzi would say, you know, hey, I'll
I don't want the guy, but shot he said no,
(04:11):
I said, I love the firepower, he said, he and
CD give us. I pinch myself at times. I want
to see a doctor. I'm very in favor of George
having a long term future with us in Dallas. Close quote.
So Jerry Jones also chimed in. He's talked about George
Pickens multiple times over the last month or so and
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is interested in a long term relationship between the player
and the team, although there have been no conversations at
this point, leading many to believe that George Pickens would
like to test the market. Well, George Pickens has an
expiring contract. We know that former Dallas star Des Bryant,
who knows the thing or two about playing for Jerry
(04:53):
Jones as a wide receiver. So does Bryant went on
social media and he gave some advice recently to George Pickens.
He said to Pickens that his legacy will be worth
more than being the highest paid receiver. He said, if
you stay with the Cowboys, there's a lot more to
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the thought process indicating that, yeah, the money is great,
but you you know, cowboys, Come on, you can do
autograph shows in Plano, Texas when you're seventy years old.
Come on now, all right, So that is a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question should George
Pickens take less for quote legacy reasons with the Cowboys?
(05:39):
That is the question. Now my thoughts on this, I
have TSA Texas Instruments and emergency app update and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a double cheeseburger with extra onions and
garlic is what we're going to make. So a listen,
we love the thing act that des Bryant who has
(06:01):
apparently lots of free time, he's got nothing going on.
But I don't know, he must be bored out of his mind.
Made a good amount of money. I don't know if
he kept his money, just be bored out of his mind.
So des Bryant is out there giving career advice like
he's the Dalai Lama of wide receivers. Is like it's
just so great, uh, just just outstanding, just absolutely, I
(06:26):
say the Dalai Lama of wide receivers. You think about
your legacy, George, You think about your like are you
are we kidding? Like? What do we what do we do?
Can we talk? Yeah? All right? So this is the NFL.
This is not some lifestyle drama. George Pickens is not
taking a dime less. Not a dime less. Then the
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market will provide him. And you know why, let me
tell you why. This isn't about legacy. Okay, because his reputation,
his legacy from his time in Pittsburgh. He already comes
with a loaded suitcase and TSA has already flagged George
Pickens when he was in Pittsburgh. He's on the do
(07:07):
not fly list, so he's got to get screened when
he goes to the airport extra because of what he
did with Mike Tomlin and the Steers. So it's fair
to say, based on what we know, based on what
we know, he's not George Pickens walking into Jerry Jones
office and saying, Okay, I'll take less. He's also not
(07:27):
going in there and getting a ceedee lamb contract. No shot,
no shot, that's not gonna happen. So he's gonna have
to take less than see the lamb and Jerry already
shot his shot. That's the issue here. Dallas picked their
alpha wide receiver. C. D. Lamb is the man in
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a lamb, That's who they picked. He's the guy. George
George George George George George Pickens. He have to be
the number two. And there have been some wonderful number
two receivers in my lifetime. I think even the Dallas
Cowboys when they used to win. I'm old, so I
remember when the cow was actually had good teams they won.
I'm old I remember that. And their top receiver was
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a guy named Michael Irvin, the playmaker. The number two
receiver was a guy named Alvin Harper, not a bad player,
Alvin Harper. You don't hear Alvin Harper's name very much
these days, or really ever after he stopped playing. You
always like the number two guy is forgotten. I'll give
you some more evidence of that. Jerry Rice in a
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different era in the eighties with the forty nine ers,
the all time greatest receiver of all time, the number
two receiver a guy named John Taylor. Very good player,
very good player. When's the last time you hear John
Taylor's name? Right? The Pittsburgh Steelers had heinz Ward and
the number two receiver was Santonio Holmes. Not a bad player,
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but that's the B side. People remember the A side,
they don't remember the B side. All those guys great
second bananas is wide receivers. They were great, but they
weren't at the very top and they didn't get paid
the top dollar. That's just the way it was. And
so the idea of legacy, Oh, it's all about the legacy.
Oh my god, please whfe you took us with your
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legacy there. And occasionally it may mean something if you've
only played for one team and you buy into that dogma.
That is not the case here with George Beckins. He
is a now football mercenary. He worked himself out of
Pittsburgh for being on the on the bad list and
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all the baggage and all that stuff, and Jerry got
him for pennies on the dollar because the Steelers are like,
we gotta get rid of this guy. He's a cancer.
So they got rid of him. And we know Jerry
loves baggage. We know that Jerry Jones loves baggage and
he collects it like frequent flyer miles and so don't
confuse that with paying a premium. We don't think that's
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going to going to happen. So we know Jerry Jones
is going to sell George Pickens when the time comes
here on being a Dallas cowboy, and he's going to
talk about all the marketing opportunities you have when you're
play in Dallas and the star on the helmet and
they leave the light there in the stadium so God
can look down because apparently God doesn't have X ray vision.
All that stuff, the bright lights, it just means more
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when you play for the Cowboys, right, all that stuff.
Sunday Night Full is just bigger when the Cowboys are
in it. But everyone's got a price tag. Everyone's got
a price tag. And des Bryant can preach about legacy
and all this nonsense and this rigamarole and all that stuff,
but legacy does not pay, does not pay for the
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extra private island in the Bahamas that you would like
to have, right And he guaranteed money typically does it
typically does right. So should Pickens take less for the legacy?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Yeah, if he wants to be a foot soldier for
Jerry Jones and a made man a made man in
the football mob, in the Death Star in Jerry's world.
That is he actually going to do it now, He's
not going to actually do it. Once those negotiations start,
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the legacy goes out the window, right right out the window.
And then they pull out the old calculator on the
phone and they start crunching the numbers and they go
over the numbers and all that, and the legacy sounds nice.
And then it's the NFL. You know, legacy is good.
Direct deposits better. I kind of like the direct deposit.
(11:44):
And you want to be the number one guy. You
can't beat the number one guy in Dallas unless the
Cowboys would trade CD lamb. That seems unlikely they're going
to trade CD lamb. So what you're gonna do? What
you're gonna do, that's the question, all right now, turno
pitch to page two. We go to Viva Las Vegas.
Viva Las Vegas. Were Raider coach Pete Carroll, Good old
(12:06):
Pete Carroll continues to sing the virtues of Geno Smith. Yes,
that suckbag quarterback Gino Smith, who proves on a weekly
basis he cannot play as a starting quarterback in the NFL.
Listen to Pete Carroll here, you'd think, if you listen
to this, you'd think that Geno Smith is God's gift
(12:29):
to the quarterback position.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Tag Liz, you know, I continue to really believe in him.
I have no hesitation in telling you that he's an
incredible player and he's busting his tail and he's working
at it really hard. He has not backed off one
step throughout the process, and so we're counting on that
he's going to keep working and he'll come through for us.
We just got to help him out more, got to
protect him better.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
All right, So how do you process the Raiders coach?
You just heard the sound bright there. Pete Carroll in
his endorsement of Geno Smith, Well, it proves that there
is no correlation between hard work and performance. Because if
he's working hard and these are the results he's getting,
holy crap, you might want to not work hard because
you're wasting your time. You suck, dude, You're terrible, right,
(13:12):
Good old positive Pete, good old positive Pete. There he is.
Raiders are two and eight. They're like a turd circling
the ball. This is what they're doing right there, and
is like a little rubber ducky surrounded by turds. That's
the raiders right there in the bathtub. And this is
(13:32):
not so much coaching. It's the art of manifestation. That's
what Pete Carroll's doing on this one. That's what I'm
going with. It's the art of manifestation, and he's trying
to speak this into existence. Good luck. Pete's not visualizing
a playoff run because that's that's over. He's visualizing therapist bills,
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is what he's doing. The shrink bills is that's where
he's going. So essentially treating Geno Smith like a frag
porcelain teacup, which is which is guy? We all know
Geno's soft. We learned that when he was at West Virginia.
He got into it with me on social media back
in the day, so we know that. But it's just crazy.
Pete Carroll will not publicly criticize Gino Smith. I challenge
(14:18):
any man, woman, or child to find audio of Pete
Carroll ripping Gino Smith. It has not happened and it
will not happen. Now why is that? Because Pete Carroll
understands that you cannot speak the truth to Gino Smith?
(14:38):
Cannot do it. He's not wired that way. He's soft,
and you can't do it with a soft athlete. You
cannot not you can't. You know. Pete's much rather rather
than just be honest here, he's like taking the peanut
butter and jelly samwich and he's cutting off the crust
to make an uncrustable homemade and he's getting the blank
(14:59):
ye ready every week for Gino Smith, it's wild. Meanwhile,
Gino's out there playing like he's a Texas Instruments calculator
from nineteen ninety four, just real slow, real real slow,
doing his thing, and my god, takes forever, takes forever
(15:21):
to get through reads. And there's a theme a lot
of these bad quarterbacks. There is one common denominator, and
they don't get rid of the ball quickly. They don't.
And you watch the Raiders with Gino Smith and it's
always the same am like, well the offense will launch
no good, oh my god. Because people are stupid. They
don't understand that it's the quarterback most of the time
that f's it up, not the offensive line. It's the quarterback.
(15:44):
And people don't understand. They don't understand ball. They understand
how that works, and so he holds the ball too long.
He's waiting for deep roots or routes, and that's how
you end up with almost thirty sacks in one hundred
and eighty five yards. Law us, he's the second worst
in the NFL. Gino Smith and Yard lost via sack.
(16:06):
Congratulation that the brain takes the scenic route when he's
playing quarterback. There he leads the NFL tied for the
lead in interceptions. Congratulations, he's the thirty first ranked quarterback
in the NFL. But he's working really hard. He's working
really hard. And there's Pete Carroll. He's got now, he's
got he bought this on Tiamu. He's got silver and
(16:29):
black knee pads. When he talks about Geno Smith's wild
he's wearing him right there, praising his effort and busting
his tail and all that. Do I need to be
the voice of reason here and point out that the
Raiders gave that man seventy five million dollars of new
money before he had ever played a game. I ever
played a game with the Raiders when they got him
(16:50):
from Seattle. And you could have bought the entire XFL
and one of those guys would have been better than
Gino Smith one of them. And so Pete really believes
in Geno Smith, which he doesn't. But if he really
believes in Geno Smith, he had to drive Geno to
the Harry Reid Airport, the newly renamed Harry Reid Airport
(17:11):
in Vegas and personally buy him a one way ticket
out of Vegas middle seat, just like Rob Parker likes
on Spirit airlines. No carry on, that's it, get out
of here. You're done, all right now, last word to Nashville,
Tennessee we go where Danny and Nashville is the only
person left watching the monstrosity that is the Tennessee football team.
(17:35):
So Titans offensive coordinator Nick Holtz chimed in on this,
Holts saying that he was talking about the quarterback cam
Ward and he told reporters, he told the staff here
that they're working to reinvent cam Ward to raise his
arm slot. Yeah. I know, just listen, they say, because
(18:00):
the way cam throws the football, he's got a lower release,
and that has led to a ton of passes being
batted down at the line of scrimmage. It happens at
least a couple of times, seemingly every game where cam
Ward has passes that should be completed that don't even
have a chance because they're getting batted down by the
(18:20):
defensive players who know, when cam Ward throws the ball,
jump up, good chance you're going to get a hold
of it. Good chances you're gonna get hold of it. Now,
the question on this one, what does the latest update
on Titan's rookie quarterback cam Ward indicate to you? So
this is not that difficult. Cam Ward we knew going
(18:42):
in was never a plug and play guy. He was
never that, and watching him play in college at Miami,
you never got the vibe, well, this is a all
time great player. This is going to be an amazing
clearly the number one player in the draft and all
that stuff. This was not a microwave dinner. This was
a raw piece of chicken and you needed to season it.
(19:04):
It was unseasoned and you had to put in the
oven for forty minutes and hope for the best, hope
for the best. The Titans drafted this guy number one overall,
number one, and here we are, it's not even the
middle of the season. We're getting kind of near the
end of the season. Thanksgivings right around the corner, and
they're trying to patch the glitches in real time, in
(19:29):
real time in season. That's the plan in Tennessee. Like
they're pushing out an emergency app update in the app store,
bug fixes and performance improvements and all that. Now the
release time, that is another issue. We talked about this
with Gino Smith, same problem with cam Ward. Cam Ward
(19:49):
two point eight seconds seems like that's pretty quick, but
in the NFL world, that is slow motion. That is
dial up Internet in the NFL world. And that's a
quarter back, just like Gino, waiting to take the deep shot,
not making quick decisions, and as a result, you end
up eating your lunch is what you end up doing
(20:10):
as you get sacked and all that stuff. And now
now his arm slot is all messed up. That's the
probably's armslot. That's the issue. Great double whammy, that's the
double whammy, is what that is. And so not only
is he late on his throes and his decisions, cam Ward,
he's also got a wonky delivery. That sounds great. Where
(20:33):
did draft a guy the fifth round?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
No?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Number one? Overall? That's what he says. So great, you
got the guy with the double whamy. Now I do
like cam Ward. Don't treat this as some kind of
attack on cam mord. He's the only quarterback in my
life who is given the most honest answer regarding his
team when he said, we asked, and he's right. He
(20:56):
also could have said me ass is what he could
have said. He could have said that as well. And
so if you want batted balls, if you want turnovers,
if you want all that stalled drives, watch the Tennessee
Titans with cam Ward. And that's the stuff to get
coaches fired. Oh by the way, cam Moore has already
got his coach fired, so they're on the interim coach
(21:17):
there and from franchise savior, which is what you expect
when you have the top pick in the draft. And
now we're talking about doing demo on cam Ward, doing
some demo, going back to studs, recreating things, because that
always works, that never goes wrong. Sure, reinvent the quarterback. Yeah,
(21:39):
we was it. We eleven, week twelve, something like that.
Just redo it. Just that's it. You know, cam Ward
not broken, He's just unfinished. He's just unfinished. It is
the Ben Mallor Show. If you would like to be part.
You can join us right now at eight seven seven
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(21:59):
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Thanksgiving when we had a trade in baseball of someone
you've likely heard of on the move in Major League Baseball.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
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Speaker 5 (22:32):
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Speaker 6 (22:40):
And that's why we have a brand new podcast called
over Promised. You see, we're having so much fun in
our two hour show. We never get to everything, honestly,
because this guy is over promising things we never have
time for.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, you blubber lit lame and me.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Well, you know what it's called over promise. You should
be good at it because you've been over promising women
for years.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Well, it's a and Rich after show, and we want
you to be a part of it. We're gonna be
talking sports, of course, but we're also gonna talk life
and relationships. And if Rich and I are arguing about
something or we didn't have enough time, it will continue
on our after show called over Promised. Well, if you
don't get enough Covino and Rich, make sure you check
out over Promised and also uncensored, by the way, so
maybe we'll go at it even a little harder. It's
(23:20):
gonna be the best after show podcast of all time.
There you go, over Promising. Remember you could see it
on YouTube, but definitely join us. Listen Over Promised with
Cavino and Rich on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or
wherever you get your podcasts, Bill Miller and you.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
It is the Ben Mallor show up all night, every
single night as we settle in on the Red Eye,
all night long. If you're with us on the overnight
flight later this hour, the who am I? Game? Next hour,
Mallard of the third Degree, insta trivia we'll have that.
We got Mallard's Riddle of the Day in our number
(23:56):
three Too much or not enough. The Queen of Hearts
with Lorena and password the word Game of the Stars.
That'll be an hour four password the word Game of
the Stars. So that's what's ahead on the Overnight. And
now I'm back to your calls. All right, back to
the calls at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
(24:18):
Also on X at Ben Mahlor. That's at Ben mal
if you'd like to be part Bozo, the District Attorney writes,
and he says, hey, Malard, don't forget the many listeners
who found your show all confined to their homes due
to the electronic monitoring bracelets they were forced to wear. Fairpoint, fairpoint,
that's accurate. And see Doc Dan says, George Pickens sounds
(24:41):
like a character on the old classic show Green Acres.
Thank you, Doc Dan. I needed a Green Acres mentioned,
and we've checked that box. That's what we've done. Congratulations.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Absolutely. Now Rebecca's upset. She's in LA, but she's upset.
She says that, hey, at least those Texas instruments calculators
were efficient. No, yeah, I used them back in the day.
Absolutely No, that was top technology. Absolutely, DJ something something
(25:14):
writes is telling people the offensive line isn't a problem,
and they don't know ball when the offensive line is right.
Second to last in the NFL is a choice. I'm
not saying Gino's great, but he put a body in there,
he said, But to just disregard that as well to me, well, DJ,
(25:36):
I promise you, if the Raiders had a halfway decent quarterback,
the offensive line would not be second to last in
the NFL. And if you don't believe me, look at
the Houston Texas. All the dumb idiots in Houston. Oh
my god, CJ. Stroud's gonna get killed. They don't have
an offensive line. Oh my god, Davis Mills plays same
suck bag offensive line, same crappy lineman, and all of
(25:58):
a sudden, the Texas offense is hmm, I wonder what
the problem was?
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, See what else do you? Ryan says off the
topics on the table. Who plays more NBA games this season?
Anthony Davis or Kawhi Leonard? Why don't you watch Ryan
and let me know? Why don't you watch and let
me know? Ryan and San Diego. Yeah, just let me
let me know what's going on with that. Late night
drug tester says, maybe George Pickens will be convinced staying
(26:29):
with the Cowboys will get him a football made of
diamonds like Jason Witten got. Yeah, not to be sold
at some auction someday. A football of diamonds. Oh, how
exciting that is. A football of diamonds. Let's go to
the phones and a big mystery on the show. Yesterday,
we gave a man his own segment on the show
(26:52):
and he did not show up. He that's a no call,
no show. That's a no call, no show, fireable offense,
one hundred percent lore. And so we reached out. We
tried to get a hold of him. I called. His
phone was not working. His Obama phone did not work.
I thought he was arrested. Let's get to the bottom
of that. Right now, we will solve the riddle. We
bring in now our boots on the ground in Miami.
(27:15):
The investigation has been solved. We say hello, that's the
voice of weed Man Hippie. Hello, weed Man Hippie. What happened?
Speaker 7 (27:23):
Oh? My phone was? You know what? I paid them
just fifty dollars, like I paid them every single month,
and and for some reason they wanted another five dollars.
I never heard that they never let me know that
my phone was shut off last night.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
All right, all right, well so they raised they must
have raised the price.
Speaker 8 (27:47):
No they man, you.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Got you know what.
Speaker 7 (27:50):
I think the people in the store just made a mistake.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I don't know, weed man. Every once in a while,
when I was a bachelor, I used to go to
Wendy's and I got the chicken sandwich combo and I
had the exact am I paid cash. Let me explain, no, no, no,
you're laughing at me, but I played. I paid. I
got the chicken sandwich combo. Wendy's. That was my go
to on Mondays. I'd always go to Wendy's. I got
the chicken sandwich combo. Fried chicken sandwich was outstanding with
the fries, and I get it Biggie size or whatever.
(28:15):
So I had this, you know, So I was so cheap.
I counted every penny. I had all my cash ready
to go. And one week I went to get my
chicken sandwich combo. I had the exact amount of money.
They raised the price. They raised the price. I was screwed,
I will When that happened, I was in the drive
through and I was like, oh my god, I don't
want money. I can't get the sandwich. Yeah wow, yeah,
(28:38):
so I'm just saying they maybe they raised the price. No, weed, man,
did you change?
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Now?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
The other question is do you have the same number?
Did you have to change your number? Okay, all right,
because we assumed either you were in jail or you
were dead. We we didn't. You know, we didn't think
that you just didn't pay your bill. You know, I
didn't think that.
Speaker 7 (28:59):
I try to pay the bill. Oh boy, I tried.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I know, I know, I know. I know you tried
to pay the bill, just like you tried to get
an email address. Right, you're trying. You're efforting an email email.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
You know what I mean? I see kind of how
to get an email.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
No, you don't know.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
You don't you know, No, I do. I don't believe
they don't my name properly. They gotta be joking. They
already have my name spelled. It's miss spelled.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Okay, then you can change it. Yes you can't. Yes,
you're not. This is not we're not yet a communist country.
Maybe someday, but you you are allowed to change your name.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
Yes, well, I don't know how they got what they
already have I don't even know that. You gotta be choking.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Okay, well they they're reading every the old line. If
you're getting something for free, weed, man, you're the product. Okay, yeah,
they're they're taking boy, I'm sure your information is very valuable. Weed.
Many are you talking about your email address? Just create
a new email address. Oh, this is like when everyone
(30:13):
was using horse and buggies. Well you get the car,
well's I don't know what the car is. I don't
know what is a car. I don't know. I was like, well,
like the telephone, what am I supposed to pick this
thing up? Wait a minute, I've been sending letters. I
don't need a telephone. Why do I need a telephone?
You know It's like it's like it's like me when
people started sending text messages, I'm not sending text messages.
I don't believe in that. My dad did the exact
(30:34):
same thing. That was like, why can't you just pick
up the phone exactly someone. Now I get offended when
someone calls me. I'm literally annoyed when someone calls me.
I would much rather text than have someone call me.
But when it started, I was like, I don't want
to text. That's for that's for teenage girls. I'm not
gonna do that. And then now I'm the that is
true though teenage girls do love to text. Well so
(30:55):
do I. So all right, you're okay though, weed Man,
Everything's all right, right, weed Man.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
I wanted to ask we No, we.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Didn't know that. We did we We gave you the
allotted time yesterday. Now I'll put you on hold, and
if somebody wants to ask you a question, we can.
How about that? You want to stay on hold? Okay?
All right, all right, if anybody wants to call weed
man'll be how long are you willing to stay on hold?
Weed Man?
Speaker 7 (31:18):
I want I want to hear what somebody's perfect life is,
if they can have the life they really want to have.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Yeah, all right, that's the deep question of the night
on a sports talk radio show. Yes, all right, all right,
hold on, I'll put you on hold. We man. You're
on hold. Okay, you're online too, so I'll go back
to you if somebody wants to talk. There you go, suck.
He is quality people, he's good people. I love the
(31:47):
guy I do. He's he's a fun guy. So we
have a trade in baseball. The team in Anaheim has
said bye bye to Taylor Ward, who has been a
productive layer at times for the Angels. He has been
traded to the Baltimore Orioles Holy Sports with Coleman Batman.
(32:08):
The Orioles acquiring Taylor Ward, the outfielder from the Angels
in exchange for a right handed pitcher. I've never heard
of named Grayson Rodriguez. I'm sure he'll suck. Heard of
the great Grayson Roes. He's right up there with Chuck Finley,
always right hand, so I guess he's not right there
with Chuck Finley. But what of the great new is
he become the ace of the Angels? Scoop Gray, You're
(32:29):
gonna go out and buy a Grayson Rodriguez jersey, possibly
future Hall of Famer right there. I love the reporting
from the Angel insiders. Angels were looking for top of
the rotation pitching. Okay lay off, drought over. I love
the scouting. I went and looked at the scouting report
on Grayson Rodriguez said, once promising prospect who spent last
(32:51):
season injured. Perfect, He's the perfect Angel. He is perfect
now if he has a I could make a crude
joke there, Coop, but I don't think. I mean, I
was about to say something very cool, but I'm not
going to do that. Coop, I'm not gonna I'm not
going there. I'm not I'm not going to go down
that what you were thinking, Ben, I'm not going to
go down that ward that road. It's actually I don't
(33:13):
know if this guy can pitch or not. He's younger,
which doesn't mean anything. I know Taylor Ward's at the
end of his athletic prime. He turns thirty two next months.
That's usually the end of your athletic prime. So the
Angels they they made a trade. Will this be the
off season of trades? I was texting one of my
Again I'm calling, but I was texting one of my
guys who's a baseball guy, and I don't think it's
a lot of free agent movement, but I believe the
(33:34):
trademark it's going to be pretty good in the hot
stove League. So we'll see about that. But that's what
I've heard of Taylor Ward. That's guy i've heard of.
That's not everyone. I've heard of everyone. So the Angels
does he Is he the number one or is Kakuchi
the number one? Don't number one. All right, let's say
hello to Tom in Rhode Island. Who is next? Hello, Tom, Welcome, good.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
Morning, comrade Miller. Miller yesterday game for yesterday game. We
might be a socialist culture.
Speaker 7 (34:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Coop got screwed, that's all I know.
Speaker 7 (34:08):
Two points of he.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Didn't get screwed. That's bad take. You're opening take is
bad take. You called me by the wrong name, and
then you made an erroneous statement about Coop.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
So I have a problem with this fake Cowboys fan
that's on your show.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Oh is that the one and only right? She's right
over there, She's she's the Wicked what was the nickname
we came up with, the Wicked, the Wicked Queen of
the Fox team.
Speaker 9 (34:35):
It is unbelievable that she calls herself a Cowboys fan,
but she was to the Wicked premiere over watching the
Cowboys who are trying to hold onto their season. She's
the embodiment of everything that sucks about Dallas.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
I'm okay with that.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
I'm okay with that because listen, at the end of
the day.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I have to embrace them magic. I have to embrace
the magic and not the suck of the Cowboys and
that's okay. You could argue counter argument, Tom, that Lorena
is the epitome of a cowboy fan. So she is
perfect as a cowboy fan because she doesn't actually watch
the Cowboys. That's the perfect cowboy fri. If they lose,
nor do I lose sleep over it? You know, I'll
still buy the cowboys socks. All right? Who's the coach
(35:18):
of the cowboys?
Speaker 7 (35:19):
Lorain?
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Right now? Hold on, hold on, hold on, all right,
she's going she's going to look right now. No, no,
she's running to what is she going to? She's running
over to grab her notes, and she's going through a drawer.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Drawer.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
She's now running back. EDI's rolling over in bed. Right now.
I have a study sheet. Give a study sheet. Study
sheet like Andy Reid's play sheet or the day's menu.
It's like my coach is Brian Schottenheimer, and the that
(35:53):
they'll keep going. I mean, there's any other questions, Tom,
she's got her cheat sheet. You won't ask any questions. Writers.
Speaker 9 (36:00):
Do you want your defensive start?
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Huh? Oh wow, you've upset Lorena. Here, Tom, listen, okay,
I listen.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
I will be coming your new nightmare. All right, don't worry.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
But Ben, I do have a trust me. I will
not lose any sleep over you.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Okay, well you're up all night, so none of us
are losing sleep. We're here all night. I mean we
just get paid to stay up on it. What what?
Speaker 7 (36:24):
So?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
How is Calshie able to operate as a sports gambling
book while costplaying as a prediction market. I live going
to state that the state controls all the gambling action,
But somehow Calshi is skirting the rules and I'm able
to play some bets and win.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Well, all right, First of all, if you're winning, why
are you complaining? That's number one, right, I'm just curious.
He just likes to complain, Ben, Well, No, he brings
up a good point. And the issue is this, though,
like how much regulation do you want? Normally, what happens
is if somebody wins too much in sports gambling, they
(37:04):
get shut off, right, That's normally how that works. They
don't want they don't want winners. They don't want you
to win too much. That's normally how that works. But
it's like in California. Sports gambling is illegal in California,
but yet you can there's certain things you can bet on,
like the fantasy stuff you can bet on. It's it's
a really it's like a piecemeal thing. It goes is
its state by state. I know when we do we
(37:27):
do the gambling. The copy they give us and it's
like thirty seconds of copy, and it's thirty seconds of
disclaimers because we're on all over the country, so it's
a million different disclaimers they have to put in there
because every state has their own rules and regulation. So
are you saying time you want national government oversight? Is
that what you want? Because Congress doesn't screw things up
at all. They do people on Capitol he'll always parafect.
Speaker 8 (37:50):
Yeah, no, they're they're perfect. But it's just it's curious
to me the world we live in now what Calshi
was able to do to outsmart these states to be
and polymarkets who's can eventually do it?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah? Yeah, poly market is very popular for sure. Yeah,
all right, I gotta go, But thank you, Tom. You've
had a lot of their very long gat four minutes.
My god, out there, you get out of here. All right?
It is the Ben Mahler Show. Time now for the
who am I Game? I know Dion Sanders has used
his friends in the media to prop up Shaudur Sanders.
Who but Cleveland. Shaudur Sanders had the lowest completion rate
(38:25):
at twenty five percent in an NFL debut Since me,
who am I? That's the question, the answer, We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (38:34):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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(39:25):
Back to it. Back to where we go and time
now to pay off the always popular who am My game?
So Cleveland Sudre Sanders the lowest completion rate twenty five
percent in an NFL debut Since me, who well ask
the question? Who am I? That is the question. What
(39:47):
is the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer?
We've got Paige not a Burner says, you are everyone
reading AI and thinking it's al okay? Tommy Cutlet's Guests
by Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota. William's going with Roman Gabriel?
(40:07):
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by James James, James James, We've got far out. Dave
says it's coop playing the game? Shows who else? Adam Driver?
Who is forty two today? From Late Night Drug Tester,
Colonel Sanders, the og from Alf the Alien Chicken finger
(40:29):
licking good, Loraina figure Liking good, Tom Cable one of
my favorite Raider coaches of all time from Scrooge in
the Bay Area. Lorraina is Dallas Cowboys notebook from Eloy
from Compton. What other players do you want? Who's your
top lineman? Offensive lineman Milena come out quick quick quickly?
Defensive offensive lineman co all right? Jed who Fled? Guests
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on Fire. Who else do we have? Page down A
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on Trey Lance guessed by Spock's Weed. Chris Wanky from
Big Lou. He's not number two, what say you, Lorena,
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